The company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to manage and enhance its FHIR data pipeline, which is essential for ingesting, processing, and delivering data from hospital systems to their analytics and workflow tools, supporting hospitals, cancer registries, and researchers nationwide.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in Python (including packaging, async programming, multithreading, Mypy, Pytest, etc.)
- Strong expertise in SQL (PostgreSQL experience preferred)
- Solid understanding of Git/GitHub workflows
- Proficiency with Linux command-line tools
- Experience building, deploying, and maintaining backend services in production
- Familiarity with FHIR or other healthcare data standards (HL7, CCD, etc.)
- Experience with NoSQL databases (we use MongoDB)
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain core backend services powering FHIR-based data ingestion and transformation
- Design, develop, and optimize ETL workflows for large healthcare datasets
- Collaborate with product and data teams to define technical requirements and deliver high-quality solutions
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code (including strong use of type-checking, unit testing, and CI/CD practices)
- Monitor and improve system performance, reliability, and scalability
- Participate in code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and help shape engineering best practices
Other
- No prior FHIR experience is required — just a willingness to learn quickly.
- You will collaborate closely with product managers, data engineers, and integration teams to ensure our systems are scalable, reliable, and easy to maintain.
